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This video was funny as hell. I guess i hadn't contemplated the idea that some areas of the world are still so remote, that we haven't all seen each other by now. Go figure.
Although the guy is bringing the whole "Christianity thing" with him (i really wish he wouldn't), he seems to genuinely care about the people in the region.
There's this line from the piece:
Quote:
Wren was visiting the area to deliver aid resources and "bring the love of Jesus" to the Mbui Pygmy people. According to Wren's website, only 1% of the Mbuti Pygmies have heard of Jesus. He also says Mbuti Pygmies are persecuted, tortured and denied citizen status in the Democratic Republic of Congo. When Wren ventured into the deep jungle to visit one of the villages some of the villagers ran and hid behind trees, having never seen a white person before.
There is some south Pacific island where the people living there have never had any meaningful contact with the modern world and they shoot arrows at helicoptors when they fly over.
A similarly isolated community exists deep in the Brazilian jungle.
Anthropologists have said that it may be best to leave these isolated people alone because they have only known their limited world for so long, and contact with the outside might be too destabilizing.
I will find some links - I read about it in some journal - but information is also certainly available online.
Edit: here is one story about uncontacted tribes -
There is some south Pacific island where the people living there have never had any meaningful contact with the modern world and they shoot arrows at helicoptors when they fly over.
A similarly isolated community exists deep in the Brazilian jungle.
Anthropologists have said that it may be best to leave these isolated people alone because they have only known their limited world for so long, and contact with the outside might be too destabilizing.
I will find some links - I read about it in some journal - but information is also certainly available online.
Yea, this piece woke me up to the idea that there must be many more communities like this around the world. I thought that there wasn't a place on the planet that a white man hadn't been, but i was damn sure wrong on that count.
LOL@ shooting arrows at copters. Oh well.
And yea, i would just leave them alone. This man seems to really care about the rights of these people, but he can help them just the same without bringing his religion into the discussion. I don't think his presence will destabilize the community as long as he's respectful of their traditions.
Yea, this piece woke me up to the idea that there must be many more communities like this around the world. I thought that there wasn't a place on the planet that a white man hadn't been, but i was damn sure wrong on that count.
LOL@ shooting arrows at copters. Oh well.
And yea, i would just leave them alone. This man seems to really care about the rights of these people, but he can help them just the same without bringing his religion into the discussion. I don't think his presence will destabilize the community as long as he's respectful of their traditions.
That is the key.
In the Amazon, there are miners and loggers whose activity threatens the isolated people.
I'm all for free market capitalism, but only when done with private property and capital.
Clearly, the land where the people profiled in the story to which I linked belongs to them, and they should be left alone to live in peace.
Here is a story and picture about a Sentinelese man shooting an arrow at a helicoptor following the 2004 tsunami. The Sentinelese live on an island in the Bay of Bengal and are considered the most isolated human civilization.
Whenever she went into town she'd have a group of children trailing her chanting "white person, white person".
Once she made a little boy cry because he thought he had seen a ghost.
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